Hegseth and Caine Visit Puerto Rico as US Steps Up Military Operations in the Caribbean The arrival comes more than a week after ships carrying hundreds of U.S. marines deployed to Puerto Rico for a training...
Trump Gives DoD ‘Secondary’ Name as Department of War, Circumventing Congress President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Defense the “secondary name” of the Department of...
Pentagon Authorizes up to 600 Military Lawyers to Serve as Temporary Immigration Judges The effort comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration by ramping up arrests and deportations.
Hegseth Fires General Whose Agency's Intel Assessment of Damage from Iran Strikes Angered Trump Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who...
New Air Force Policy Denies Transgender Troops Hearings Before They're Discharged It is the second policy change the Air Force has taken in recent weeks to crack down on transgender service members.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Belongs to an Archconservative Church Network. Here's What to Know. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's proud to be part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, an...
Defense Secretary Hegseth Promotes Video of Man Claiming Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Vote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video about Christian domination in the age of President Donald Trump — and his since...
Restoration of Torn-Down Confederate Monument Will Cost $10 Million over 2 Years, Military Says Restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress...
Army Puts Political Operative in Charge of Public Affairs, Stoking Concerns of Creeping Partisanship While it's not unusual for political hands to manage messaging at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the ongoing change to...
Pentagon Tightens Rules on Getting Medical Waivers to Join the Military The decision comes after the Pentagon announced earlier this year that it would ban transgender troops and review other...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
'It's a Lottery': Why Foreign Volunteer Fought in Russia-Ukraine War Jack de Santis is a Croatian-born volunteer of the Ukrainian army who used his engineering, drone expertise to help fight...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
![Protest outside the Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Carolina, Puerto Rico](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-09/ApNewsroom_Puerto_Rico_Protest_56090.jpg?itok=M5YLlovF "A demonstrator holds a sign that reads in Spanish, "No to the militarization of Puerto Rico" during a protest outside the Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)")
